the omachine build from Helson and Jackets on Vimeo.
The following is an email we sent to Cath, Iain and Helen after the event on Saturday, they asked us to post it here.
"We arrived back last night to a huge stack of towers offloaded from the lorry. Garry and I spent this morning carrying them to store in an outhouse, it was reassuringly blowing a gale and pouring with rain.
Thank you for all your kind words, although we are a bit disappointed, we got tantalizingly close to making it work properly, it was the torrential rain that arrived at 3pm that did for us. The wind was so strong that it blew the rain into the projector boxes and soaked Steve and Abby's projectors. Waiting for the torrent to end and then the time it took to sort this out meant that we were unable to get the technical set up working properly. We were getting some kind of interference on the video cables, we just ran out of time to be able to solve the problem.
However we did get a glimpses of the o machine emerging please see the video :
http://helsonandjackets.com/
the o machine from Helson and Jackets on Vimeo.
the o machine from Helson and Jackets on Vimeo.
The weather wasn't great and it nearly stopped us making it, but everyone involved was brilliant. The opportunity you have given us, your belief support and overwhelming generosity towards us is inspiring. The ethos of ground-UP is something rare to us within the arts commissioning process.
It was brave to allow us the freedom to push out, take risks and make something at the edge of ourselves. And the support and calm way in which you solved some of the tricky practical problems was invaluable.
We will now try find find a way to show the work again. Probably somewhere where we can spend much more time exploring it. This was an experiment to create something new, an artwork for Stoops. It might not mean that it is in Stoops but we hope to find away for some of Stoops to come again to the o machine. South west Burnley residents to view it here."
Chris and Sarah
